Rastellum (Arctostrea)

No picture of Rastellum (Arctostrea) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rastellum (Arctostrea), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RastellumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya100.5 Mya167 Mya92 Mya

6 occurrences of Rastellum (Arctostrea) on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

6 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Habo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°W

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The named rock units Rastellum (Arctostrea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rastellum (Arctostrea), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Rastellum (Arctostrea) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rastellum (Arctostrea), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rastellum (Arctostrea) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRastellum through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pervinquiere 1910)